Report: Tigers 'pushing hard' to trade for a closer

2:51 PM,
Mar. 5, 2013

Tigers manager Jim Leyland.

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Posted by Brian Manzullo
Detroit Free Press Sports Writer

We've still got a few weeks of spring training remaining, but it seems the Detroit Tigers might already be scouring the trade market for a closer -- though that could prove to be difficult.
That is, according to CBS Sports' Danny Knobler, who writes that major-league sources are telling him the Tigers are "pushing hard" after witnessing the struggles of rookie Bruce Rondon thus far this spring.
Through four games, Rondon has thrown 3 2/3 innings and given up five hits, three earned runs, five walks and struck out six. He'll skip his next scheduled appearance to work on his mechanics in the ...